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ancianita

(36,023 posts)
1. How so? A "one national program rule" sounds pretty pro-Trump to me. Outdoing her husband? pffft
Fri Sep 20, 2019, 05:18 PM
Sep 2019

To me this is more consistent with MF45's agenda than undermining.

This GOP will happily give up states rights when it's in power, for anything Trump says or wants regardless of all teh court battles that ensue. And whether courts overrule Trump or not, this propaganda won't stop.

If anything, she's joining Trump in undermining CA as a symbol of making America great again. It's to embolden their embattled Republicans, drag down CA's national status. Which ain't happenin'.

Am I missing something about what self harming means? To climate change and science deniers, self harm is worth it every step of the way of the primrose path.



The Wielding Truth

(11,415 posts)
2. He's talking about state's rights. Something that was a staple striking point for Republicans.
Fri Sep 20, 2019, 06:24 PM
Sep 2019

Now they want to brush it away because California followed it's own path to innovate and solve it's pollution problem.

paulkienitz

(1,296 posts)
4. if you think this undermines the GOP, you're making the mistake of thinking of them as ideologues
Fri Sep 20, 2019, 06:42 PM
Sep 2019

The right wing does not run on ideology, it runs on us-vs-them. The ideology of the moment is whatever favors their idea of "real" Americans over those who are not in that group.

This is why the right wing is so vulnerable to being pulled into fascism. The appeal of fascism is that it will give your culture an edge over other cultures. And that's exactly what the conservative base wants. They want America's traditional white, christian, patriarchal, gun-toting culture to have supremacy over other cultures, foreign and domestic. Ideology is only a tool to gain advantages, not an end in itself. We don't notice this because so many of their pundits play very convincing ideologues on TV, but even they are mostly not ideologues, as can be seen in their routine level of hypocricy. Ideological arguments are only tools to advance one culture and its members over other cultures -- to maintain as much privilege as possible for members of the conservative base at the expense of those who don't qualify for membership in the group. In that light, this move is not the least bit inconsistent with anything else in Trumpism, or for that matter in Reaganism.

SergeStorms

(19,195 posts)
8. Up yours, Mrs. Turtle.
Fri Sep 20, 2019, 10:45 PM
Sep 2019

If you and your hubby shove your heads just a little further up Trump's ass you'll asphyxiate yourselves.

randr

(12,411 posts)
10. Now Chinese oligarchs are dictating to us?
Sat Sep 21, 2019, 06:57 PM
Sep 2019

Colorado Cory Gardner will be hearing from me one more time, just to say byebye.

ffr

(22,669 posts)
12. Yo Mama. K&R. Brian Cohen's channel is a gold mine! Kudos to you!
Wed Sep 25, 2019, 03:18 AM
Sep 2019

I was initially turned off by this video's intro, but through YouTube, got linked to another because I'd seen a portion of this one. This guy is good, really good. He speaks in a language that everyone, but especially a younger audience, would understand.

Thank you. Thank you!

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